Macdonald Youth Services (MYS) officially opened the doors last month to their brand new, state-of-the-art, 33,000-square-foot facility at 175 Mayfair Avenue. The $7.5 million Therapeutic Centre is expected to help more than 9,000 youth per year in Manitoba through life skills training, counselling, and mobile crisis intervention.

Brittany Ross snagged gold at the World Skills Americas competition in the Restaurant Services category last November. This was an amazing accomplishment for the 20-year-old Assiniboine Community College graduate who had to compete in a foreign world.

Owner, James Janeteas, speaks with a University of Waterloo student in the campus’ 3D print studio.

Canada’s largest provider of 3D technology is a company called Cimetrix. Based in Oshawa, Cimetrix has spent the past 12 years introducing the practical and rational aspects of 3D printing technology to Canadian industry and academia. To date, about 30 per cent of their machines have been placed in academic institutions, and of that number, about 65 per cent are in high schools.